The limited volume of the edition means the demand appears to have more to do with the coins' attractiveness to collectors than any move into them as a proxy Deutschmark to use instead of regular euros.

Because the euro encompasses weaker economies, it could never rise as high as a separate German deutschmark surely would have, so it has protected German producers from such competitive pricing disadvantages.

The second part also has four essays which look at the question of Britain's entry into the Common Market and its effects on the Atlantic partnership, the dissolution of the Transatlantic Monetary Order, the difficulties of the Deutschmark from 1968 to 1973, and the 1970-71 Rolls Royce-Lockheed crisis.

Summary: Berlin, June 26, 2010, SPA -- Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday that German reunification had "not yet been achieved in all areas," 20 years after the East German regime adopted the west&'s Deutschmark currency as a prelude to political unification.

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